Transitional Kindergarten
The Kindergarten Readiness Act, a historic reform to kindergarten education, gives California an unparalleled opportunity to ensure that 120,000 more children every year are better prepared to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. The new law creates transitional kindergarten (TK), the first year of a two-year kindergarten experience for those students who are born between September and December. It also changes the kindergarten entry date from Dec. 2 to Sept. 1, so children enter kindergarten at age 5.
Click here for more general information on transitional kindergarten. This fact sheet provides an overview of the Kindergarten Readiness Act that created TK; what TK is; and how TK is a win-win-win-win for California's children, parents, schools and economy.
Want to learn more about transitional kindergarten implementation? Information for sharing promising practices and resources across the state are available here. The website www.tkcalifornia.org and a statewide scan of school districts throughout California that have been offering TK programs for years serve to help inform school districts that are now beginning implementation.
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Click the chart to see the implementation schedule required by school districts under the Kindergarten Readiness Act. The graphic shows when a child will be age-eligible for kindergarten or transitional kindergarten according to birth year and the month the child turns 5. |
To view the support the Kindergarten Readiness Act garnered from business, law enforcement, media and education leaders, click here.
Find innovative models and materials from the fall Transitional Kindergarten Implementation Summit - a forum
for educators to share promising practices, strategies and
resources for implementing transitional kindergarten in a high-quality
and efficient way. Videos from the summit can be found below. For additional summit and breakout session videos, please click here.
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Family Outreach and Engagement Materials
Presentation
2012 Summit: Leap into TK | 02.28.2012
This summit is for the educator who wants to learn more about transitional kindergarten; how to fund, how to implement, and how to design curriculum and a classroom environment that supports learning. more
Update on Transitional Kindergarten and the Governor’s Budget Proposal | 02.13.2012
Some important updates have occurred this week, including the release of the budget trailer bill on Wednesday, Feb. 1, which signal intent and offer guidance on transitional kindergarten from both the California Assembly and the Brown Administration. more
Family Rally: Save Kindergarten! | 02.07.2012
Gov. Brown has proposed denying our youngest schoolchildren right the right to attend kindergarten. If approved, up to 125,000 children with fall birthdays - 1 in 4 kindergarteners - will be denied the right to public education. Join the Long Beach Unified School District, families, educators and business and civic leaders to make your voices heard loud and clear: Save Kindergarten! more
Gov. Brown's 2012-2013 budget calls for devastating cuts | 01.06.2012
Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2012-13 budget proposal, released yesterday, calls for $517 M in cuts to child development. The Governor estimates this will cut 62,000 children from early care and education programs. After suffering devastating cuts in recent years this radical proposal decimates our child development system and leaves California’s most vulnerable children without care. In addition to proposing to cut an unprecedented number of children from early care and education programs, Gov. Brown proposed to move up the kindergarten entry date, kicking 125,000 children out of school. more
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